Oscar Zariski was a Russian-born American mathematician and one of the most influential algebraic geometers of the 20th century.
11 Facts About Oscar Zariski
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Oscar Zariski left Kyiv in 1920 to study at the University of Rome where he became a disciple of the Italian school of algebraic geometry, studying with Guido Castelnuovo, Federigo Enriques and Francesco Severi.
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Oscar Zariski wrote a doctoral dissertation in 1924 on a topic in Galois theory, which was proposed to him by Castelnuovo.
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Oscar Zariski emigrated to the United States in 1927 supported by Solomon Lefschetz.
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Oscar Zariski had a position at Johns Hopkins University where he became professor in 1937.
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Oscar Zariski addressed the question of rigour by recourse to commutative algebra.
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Oscar Zariski proposed the first example of a Oscar Zariski surface in 1958.
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Oscar Zariski was elected to the United States National Academy of Sciences in 1944, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1948, and the American Philosophical Society in 1951.
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Oscar Zariski was awarded the Steele Prize in 1981, and in the same year the Wolf Prize in Mathematics with Lars Ahlfors.
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Oscar Zariski wrote Commutative Algebra in two volumes, with Pierre Samuel.
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Oscar Zariski's papers have been published by MIT Press, in four volumes.